21世纪(第二册)课后习题答案1-8单元.docVIP

Unit 1 5 1. passengers 2. immediately 3. similar 4. wonder 5. continent 6. traffic 7. misunderstandings 8. embarrassed 9. flights 10. common 11. serious 12. searched 6 1. got on 2. head for 3. tapped on the shoulder 4 . pull over 5. resulted in 6. feel like 7. By the time 8. turn out all right 9. in the end 10. instead of 7 1. By the time I got home, I was too tired to do anything active. 2. The two girls look too similar for people outside the family to tell them apart from each other. 3. What in the world does mm stand for? The abbreviations that people use on the BBS are too confusing for me to understand. 4. Because of TV, most people have become too lazy to make the effort to go to the cinema. 5. Anne made a serious mistake yesterday because the test gave her too little time to decide on the correct choice. 8 1. until I have really learnt the basics of the language. 2. until the end of the book 3. until they have finished their speeches 4. until my teacher explained them in class with several examples 5. until I saw Sam Ward leave the building 6. until he got on a city bus 9 1. Because of the heavy snow, the passengers had to wait at the airport until midnight when the snow stopped. 2. Twenty minutes after the train started, the two boys found that they had got on a train heading for Hangzhou instead of their hometown, Suzhoul. 3. Similar-sounding English words often result in misunderstandings among English-speaking people. 4. The driver heard an unusual sound from the car engine, so he pulled over immediately to check, but it turned out all right in the end. 5. Mr. Lee felt very embarrassed when he realized that he had made a very common mistake among speakers of English as a second language. 6. Mary felt like learning English and hoped she could learn it quickly, but soon found it was too difficult for her to learn in a short period of time. 10 1. giving us heat and light 2. ranging in age from 4 to 16 3. Being invited to speak here 4. you